Ross Kemp feels "guilty" about making a living through his hard-hitting documentaries.
Ross Kemp has fronted a string of hard-hitting documentaries since leaving EastEnders
The 59-year-old star has fronted a string of films focusing on topics such as prisons, drugs, and crime gangs since leaving his role as Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera 'EastEnders' in 2006 and now also hosts the game show 'Bridge Of Lies' as he explained he enjoys having the balance of working between the two.
Speaking on the 'Table Manners' podcast, he told hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware: "Sometimes I sort of feel sort of guilty about the fact that I literally get paid to do documentaries about human suffering, so what is nice about doing a game show is that it less about human suffering and more about having a laugh and a giggle."
The former soap star has not acted on screen for some time but admitted that when he first started his career, he was completely "wrong" about what he thought his future may look like, initially believing that he would be a jobbing actor who toured repertory theatre.
He added: "I think the world has changed. Television has changed. When I was younger...I left drama school in 1985. My first job was with John Thaw and Richard Wilson, who many people may remember as Morse and Victor Meldrew. They were a big television in their names and television was a really big deal but it's sort of become less so with the advent of social media and podcasts.
"When I first started going out into the acting world, there were reps in every town in the UK. And I thought I was going to move around doing repertory theatre, treading the boards, and get a little job in telly. But how wrong was I?"
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